5 things you didn't know about Yemi Alade

Cate Mukei | NEWS | 1 December, 2015

Nigerian singer Yemi Alade made her second appearance on the third season of Coke Studio Africa this year. She left a huge impact after matching up the stage presence of two of Kenya’s biggest music acts: Sauti Sol and Jua Cali. Aside from the usual reports on whom she is collaborating with or dating, she rarely talks about her personal life.

She rose to fame when she won the Peak Talent Show in 2009 and decided to make a career soon after. Before then, she was part of a girl group called Naughty Spices and her act was known as Ginger.

2. Daughter of a policeman

Her father was a police commissioner and naturally he did not entertain nonsense.

“I was not even allowed to attend my friend's birthday parties. One time my mother and I had even gone shopping for a dress to wear at a friend's party. I was all ready to leave the house when he told me that I wasn't going anywhere,” she recalls.